Haven't finished Luke Cage either, not bad but not great either.... Found Daredevil a slog too. But liked JJ, just not enough to purchase this steel.
Love Marvel Studios movies, just find their tv series output somewhat lacking.
I think the opposite is true with me at this point- I love the content that Marvel TV has been putting out.
I loved Daredevil Series 1.
Jessica Jones was bold.
Daredevil Series 2 was... there.
And while I'm not a fan of Luke Cage, I can at least appreciate that it is something that's different.
The Second season of Agents of Shield was great (which makes it a shame that the other 3 seasons have been crap).
And Agent Carter was good enough.
As far as Marvel Studios Proper goes- I think that they're starting to really frustrate me. Their films are starting to feel like dull, assembly-line, and sterile with all semblance of creativity stamped out in pre-production due to the Producer driven mindset that Marvel Studios is pushing. I mean- Doctor Strange straight up angered me. xD
Its boring as hell, with mundane scipts and the lead character is not very likable. This should have sold out being Marvel but it hasn't. Critics liked it but many fans didn't "I included" Im no Marvel fan boy but getting through this show to the end was a hard slog. The Winter Soldier destroys this on every single level. Daredevil was superb, Luke Cage terrible, this was watchable at best.
Winter Soldier was fantastic- and I think it stands as the single greatest film that Marvel has crafted by a very large margin.
No, Jessica Jones herself was not a "likable" character- but throughout the history of Cinema, the quality of a character is not necessarily defined by their likability.
The prime example I could give would be the character of Charles Foster Kane from Citizen Kane. A horrible human being, by all accounts, but it's the events that shape his character that make his own actions and motivations fascinating. The same I feel can be said for Jessica Jones. She's a broken character that has been placed in this level of vulnerability because her free will has been stripped from her.
And let's not get all misty-eyed over Daredevil, here... xP
It was a perfectly well-executed show, but you can also claim that it's contrived, redundant, and has the characters all come to revelations that the audience is already aware of- making the gravity and depth of their discoveries seem insignificant. Daredevil was good, but it didn't blaze any new trails here.
And I would actually argue that Winter Soldier does not beat Jessica Jones in terms of color-palate... It's a small thing, but it's something I feel is so obvious, I don't know how almost every single one of their films seems to be so visually flat and plain... Even when looking at something as fantastical as Civil War- you have... your big, climactic fight take place in an empty, grey, dull parking lot... what happened? xD
